9'10" x 18'8" Persian Kashan Rug | Signed Ivory & Green All-Over Floral | Palace Size

This is a palace length piece: 9'10" x 18'8" of hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, woven as a signed Persian Kashan rug with the weaver's cartouche set into the ivory end border. The drawing runs edge to edge across an ivory field with no central medallion, which is the harder way to build a room-size Kashan because every repeat has to stay in register over nearly 19 feet of length. Rooms that need this footprint, long formal living rooms, double parlors, wide dining halls, are the reason oversize Persian rugs in true 10 by 19 proportions are so difficult to find on the floor rather than in a photograph. Condition is perfect, the pile stands full, and the rug ships with a certificate of authenticity documenting origin, materials and construction.

Design and Motifs

The field is a classic all-over floral design built on a lattice of curling arabesque vines. Large palmettes and split blossoms sit at the crossing points, flanked by long serrated saz leaves that curve back on themselves, with small 8 petal rosettes and budding sprays filling the ground between them. The repeat mirrors across the center line and reverses down the length, so the pattern reads symmetrically from either end of the room. The main border carries an alternating run of round rosette medallions and paired leafy blossoms on a continuous vine, held between narrow ivory guard stripes with a fine meander and a saw-tooth inner line. At one end the vine is interrupted by the signature cartouche, an inked-looking panel of Persian script woven directly into the border, which is the mark of a named workshop piece rather than an anonymous commercial weave.

Ivory Ground, Sage Green Border, Blue Detail

The ground is a warm ivory, closer to cream than to white, with the faint natural luster that good Kashan wool takes on after the pile is clipped. Against it the drawing is worked in deep navy outlines, sky blue and teal petals, olive and moss green leafwork, soft coral and salmon centers, and small touches of brick red that keep the field from going flat. The main border shifts to a muted sage green, a quieter and less common choice than the usual Kashan navy, and it frames the ivory field without shouting over it. The guard stripes return to ivory, so the eye steps from light to green to light again as it moves outward. It is a decorator's palette: pale enough to open up a large room, with enough green and blue in the pattern to anchor upholstery in those families.

Kashan Weaving and Workshop Quality

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its looms trace back to the Safavid court workshops that set the standard for curvilinear Persian drawing. The city's own wool is soft and lustrous, which is why a Kashan pile ages with sheen instead of dulling, and the local weavers are known for fine, even knotting on a taut cotton foundation, visible in the tight back and short trimmed pile of this piece. Kashan is also the design most people already know without knowing the name: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor. On a rug this long the real test is discipline, keeping the knot count, the vine spacing and the border rhythm consistent from one end to the other, and this weaver signed the work because it holds up to that test.